Andres David Buritica Monroy

Andres David Buritica Monroy is an Australian mathematician and MIT undergraduate (course 6-3, Computer Science and Engineering), born into the Australian IMO program and a three-year International Mathematical Olympiad medalist for Australia: bronze in 2019 (rank 168), silver in 2020 (rank 59) and gold in 2021 (rank 48). He attended Scotch College Melbourne before matriculating at MIT in 2022. His professional experience is two Optiver internships - a Quantitative Trader Intern role in Chicago in 2024 and a Software Engineer Intern role in 2025 - both consistent with summer internships around his studies. At MIT he has taught an ESP Splash class, taken Toy Product Design (2.00b) and the fabrication course How To Make (Almost) Anything (MAS.863), and sings with MIT a cappella groups.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED that his profile lists actual Optiver work - a 'Quantitative Trader Intern' role (Chicago, 2024) and a 'Software Engineer Intern' role (2025); Optiver is a global market maker and proprietary trading firm, i.e. quant trading, so the employer classification is a genuine quantitative-trading firm, not a namesake. Identity is supported by name, the IMO Olympiad background, and the MIT education all aligning on the same person. Evidence is index/LinkedIn-derived rather than an Optiver-issued primary document, so the confirmation rests on that source class.2025
• Three-year IMO medal progression for Australia - bronze 2019 (rank 168, 22 pts), silver 2020 (rank 59, 29 pts), gold 2021 (rank 48, 24 pts with a perfect P1/P4/P5) - marks him among Australia's top Olympiad mathematicians of his cohort.2021
• IMO medals for Australia: bronze 2019 (rank 168, score 22), silver 2020 (rank 59, 29 pts), gold 2021 (rank 48, 24 pts) - a rising three-year arc across all three IMO appearances.
• Index-only profile (ClickHouse/LinkedIn-derived, not an independent primary source) lists two past Optiver roles: Quantitative Trader Intern (Chicago, 2024) and Software Engineer Intern (2025), with no dates finer than the year for 2025.2024
• Full-time enrollment at MIT (class of 2026, B.S. 6-3 Computer Science and Engineering) makes both Optiver roles summer internships rather than permanent employment; the 2024 role was described as a Chicago-based trading internship.2024
• The build shows a mathematics-to-systems progression: an IMO competitor in 2019-2021, an MIT course-6-3 computer science major, then a fabrication/circuitry/software building course (MAS.863 How To Make Almost Anything) in 2024 - quantitative competition strength paired with a hands-on engineering major.2024
• Competed in the 2022 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition as part of MIT's team; MIT swept all five Putnam Fellow spots that year, so his individual placement is not stated in the official results page.Dec 3, 2022
• Selected as AUS2 for Australia at the 2019 Mathematics Ashes pre-IMO training camp in Bath, scoring 16/21 in a 104-77 win over the UK.Jul 13, 2019
• Named as AUS2 for Australia at the 2019 Mathematics Ashes (pre-IMO training camp, Bath), scoring 16/21 while Australia beat the UK 104-77.
• No personal GitHub, X/Twitter, blog, or personal website could be linked to this subject: name-scoped searches returned only unrelated namesakes (Colombian engineers, an IPFS contributor, a stencil artist), so code/social surface is absent rather than merely unsearched.2026
• Taught an MIT ESP (Splash) class 'M15412: Game' as an undergraduate volunteer teacher, an early public-facing teaching signal.2023
• Enrolled in MIT's 2.00b Toy Product Design as a first-year, producing a portfolio of toy and industrial-design work (Toober, Snake Bite, Blade Box); team listed as 'Kangaroo', pronouns he/him.2023